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Candles and burning are not permitted on the UCSC campus. See Student Policies and Regulations for complete guidelines.

College students living away from home should take a few minutes to make sure they are living in a fire-safe environment. Educating students on what they can do to stay safe during the school year is important and often overlooked.

College students living away from home should take a few minutes to make sure they are living in a fire-safe environment. Educating students on what they can do to stay safe during the school year is important and often overlooked.

SAFETY TIPS • Look for fully sprinklered housing when choosing a dorm or off-campus housing.• Make sure you can hear the building alarm system when you are in your dorm room.

Smoking SenseUCSC is a smoke free campus. Smokers should practice extreme caution in wildl areas beyond the campus. Do not toss cigarette butts on the ground.

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FACT• Fires in dormitories are more

common during the eveninghours, between 5–11 pm,and on weekends.

•Roughly six outof seven fires indormitories arestarted by cooking.

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• If you live in a dormitory, make sure your sleeping room hasa smoke alarm, or your dormitory suite has a smoke alarm ineach living area as well as the sleeping room. For the bestprotection, all smoke alarms in the dormitory suite shouldbe interconnected so that when one sounds, they all sound.

• If you live in an apartment or house, make sure smokealarms are installed in each sleeping room,outside every sleeping area, and on each levelof the apartment unit or house. For the bestprotection, all smoke alarms in the apartmentunit or house should be interconnected so thatwhen one sounds, they all sound.

• Test all smoke alarms at least monthly.• Never remove batteries or disable the alarm.• Learn your building’s evacuation plan and practice

all drills as if they were the real thing.• If you live off campus, have a fire escape plan with two ways

out of every room.• When the smoke alarm or fire alarm sounds, get out of the

building quickly and stay out.• Stay in the kitchen when cooking.• Cook only when you are alert, not sleepy or drowsy

from medicine or alcohol.• Check with your local fire department for any restrictions

before using a barbeque grill, fire pit, or chimenea.• Check your school’s rules before using electrical appliances

in your room.

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FIRE SAFETY CHECKLIST FOR STUDENTS1. Make sure your sleeping room has working smoke detectors.

3. Have food on hand that doesn’t require cooking. Cooking when you’ve hadtoo much to drink increases the chance you’ll make a mistake or start a fire.

2. Plan to survive … know two ways out from your room.

4. Buy flameless candles. They come in all sizes, colors and scents.

5. Make sure you know and practice a fire escape plan.

6. Talk with your roommates and determine a safe place to meet outside in caseof a fire.

7. Clear exits/hallways/stairs. In case of a fire, you’ll need to leave quickly.

8. Clean the dryer lint trap before and after each use. Help keep dryers safe.

9. Leave quickly when the fire/smoke alarm sounds. Spending timeretrieving items increases your chances of being trapped. Leaveeverything and GO.

10. Friends keep friends safe from fire-related hazards.Share this checklist … pass fire safety tips along to friends!

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